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Publication details [#5326]

Kaplan, S. Jerrold. 1981. Appropriate responses to inappropriate questions. In Joshi, Aravind K., Bonnie L. Webber and Ivan A. Sag, eds. Elements of discourse understanding. Cambridge University Press. pp. 127–144.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness | computer communication system | cooperation | question-answer sequence

Annotation

On the problem of devising natural language computer systems so as to make them respond appropriately when they can detect a misconception on the part of the questioner, i.e. so as to make them conversationally cooperative.